Cigarette package



Jam-6,1942. E. F. CORNOCK CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Feb, 5, 1940 INVENTOR[ow/mp FC'oP/wcn Z ATTORNEY? Patented Jan. 6, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE cIoAaE'r'rri PACKAGE I Edward F. Cornock, Springfield, Mass.,assig'nor to Package Machinery Company, Springfield, Mass., acorporation of Massachusetts Application February 3, 1940, Serial No.317,093 6 Claims. (01. 229-51) This invention relates to an improvedpackage l3 and overlapping side folds I4 and i5. This particularlyintended for cigarettes and to an improduces a tubular extension of thewrapper proved method by which the article may be made. which issubsequently folded downwith tucks One customary manner of opening acigarette l9 and overlapping flaps I1 and i8. package is to tear of! acorner of the top, thereby For the practice of my invention the end I9exposing the ends only of a few cigarettes and of thearticle'againstwhich the wrapper first keeping the package intact except for this smallmakes contact is chosen for the top of the finopening. It has recentlybecome customary to ished article and it is the corner of this top whichplace around this'complete cigarette package an it is desired to removeby tearing. It will be ob additional outer covering of one of the trans-10 served that this top is unbroken by folds and parent cellulosederivatives. This type of mathat for this reason it is not accessiblefor tearterial is notoriously diflicult to tear, and in order ingwithout the use of my invention. to permit the described way of openingthe pack- A tearing strip indicated generically by 20 is age to beemployed it has hitherto been necessecured adhesively to the wrapper l2before the sary to remove the entire transparent wrapping, latter isfolded around the article. This tearor in some instances to provide atearing strip by ing strip is made in the form of a V with a broad whichthe whole top of the outer wrapper may rectangular base 2|, this basebeing positioned be torn off. across the top of the article with itsupper edge,

In accordance with the present invention, a as viewed in Fig. 1, lyingacross the edge 22 of tearing strip is provided, so located that onlythe the article.- The rhomboidal sides 23 of the V comer of the wrapperwhich is to be exposed are caused to extend a short distance beyond thewill be torn oil. Preferably, and as will be debody of the blank as at24. In order to facilitate scribed below, the wrapper and the tearingstrip the tearing of the wrapper a slit 25' is preferare so arrangedthat the removal of the torn part ably formed in the wrapper at thatside of the does not tend to open up any of the overlapping Z5 tearingstrip which is to come uppermost and and sealed portions of the wrapperand so that form the fold ll.

the remainder of the'transparent wrapping will The blank with thetearing strip adhesively remain intact after the desired corner has beensecured thereto is folded around the.article in removed. the mannerdescribed above. The portion 2| of It is a further object of theinvention to imthe tearing strip l s across he Corner of the prove themethod of assembling the tearing strip top of the wrapper while theV-shaped edges 23 with the wrapper so that this assembly may be extendfirst as a diagonal band across the flat accomplished by automaticmachinery without sides of the pack and n erlap e ch other requiring anychanges whatever in the method w as triangular extensions underlying heo s ll of wrapping. and I5. If the outermost triangular extension beAdditional objects will appear from the followgrasped the cellulosewrapper will be torn; starting description and laim ing at the notch 25,extending completely around Referring to the drawing: the sides and topof the article, and finally tear- Fig. 1 is a perspective detail showinga blank in: he underlying fold I so that a patch is exwith the improvedtearing strip applied thereto m posed of a shape corresponding directlyto that and also indicating the initial assembly of an an of the tearingstrip, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

tid th t i wrapper; It may be that the outer triangular tab is Fig. 2 ia perspective vi w of th wrapped somewhat hard to distinguish on accountof the arti l fact that one of these tabs lies directly over the Fig. 3is a detail of the left hand end of the other- It is generally desired odic by a .article as seen inFig. 2; different color of the tearing stripthe location Fig. 4 i a detail of a wrapper ho i a dof the tab to bepulled and for that reason some ified form f bearing strip; andconfusion may result in the case as described Fig.-5 is a detailcorresponding to Fig. 21 but above where the overlying tabs are of thesame employing the tearing strip of Fig. 4. color. If this be so, thetwo triangular exten- The article In may be a pack of cigarettes, in 1 1n be ofiset by varying the-angular relawhich case the cigarettes lie inthe direction of n of the w ide o the V-shaped tearing strip the arrowH. A blank I! is employed in which as h w n P 8. 4- In this case thebottom 30 to wrap the article, this being folded upon the i8 flanked bythe o slanting S d s 3 n 2, the article in such a manner as to produceside tucks f mer being indicated as lying at a steeper angl than theother. This results in a shorter lateral extension 38 on the side 3ithan the distance 34 on the other side. When the tearing strip soconstructed is wrapped around the package as indicated in Fig. 5 theside portion 32 will extend somewhat further down the side of thepackage, making it perfectly clear where the tearing strip may begrasped.

What I claim is: g

1. A package comprising an article, a wrapper encircling the article andpresenting an unbroken surface across the top face and a pair ofadjacent faces thereof and having overlapping side folds on a sideadjacent said top and intermediate said faces, and a tearing stripunderlying a portion of the top face of the wrapper, extendingdiagonally across said adjacent faces, and thence extending underneatheach of said overlapping flaps whereby when the tearing strip is pulledthe wrapper will be torn off from around one comer of the top and fromthe faces and side adjacent thereto, the ends of said tearing stripbeing positioned out of alignment with each other.

2. A package comprising an article, a wrapper encircling the article andpresenting an unbroken surface across the top face and a pair ofadjacent faces thereof, and having overlapping side folds on a sideadjacent said top and adjacent faces, and a tearing strip underlying aportion of the top face of the wrapper, extending diagonally across saidadjacent faces, and thence extending underneath each of said overlappingflaps whereby when the tearing strip is pulled the wrapper will be tornoil? from around one corner of the top and from the faces and the sideadjacent thereto.

3. A cigarette package comprising a wrapped package of cigarettes, anouter wrapper extending around the package, and a tearing strip locatedbetween the package and the wrapper and defining a path extending acrosstwo adjacent sides forming an edge of the package and diagonally acrossthe sides contiguous to the first two sides a and located at theopposite ends of the edge, one

end of the strip extending between overlapping folds of the wrapper.

4. A cigarette package comprising a wrapped package of cigarettes, anouter wrapper extending around the package, and a tearing strip locatedbetween the package and the wrapper and.

defining a path extending across two adjacent sides forming an edge ofthe package and diagonally across the sides contiguous to the first twosides and located at the opposite ends of the edge, one end of the stripextending between overlapping folds of the wrapper, said tearing stripbeing adhesively secured to the inner surface of the wrapper.

5. A cigarette package comprising a wrapped package of cigarettes, anouter wrapper extending around the package with an unbroken surfaceacross the top and a pair of adjacent faces, and a tearing memberadhesively secured to the inner surface of the wrapper, said memberhaving a rectangular portion secured to one end of that portion of thewrapper extending over the top of the package and a pair of rhomboidalportions extending diagonally across said adjacent faces and intooverlapping relation on the article side adjacent thereto. 1

6. A cigarette package comprising a wrapped package of cigarettes, anouter wrapper extending around the package with an unbroken surfaceacross the top and a pair of adjacent faces, and a tearing memberadhesively secured to the inner surface of the wrapper, said memberhaving a rectangular portion secured to one end of that portion of thewrapper extending over the top of the package and a pair of rhomboidalportions extending diagonally across said adjacent faces and intooverlapping relation on the article s ide adjacent thereto with onecorner of one of said rhomboidal portions exposed in offset relation tothe other portion.

EDWARD F. CORNOCK.

